[MLS ATTENDANCE] Crowds were up -- above the season average -- in Week 20. For MLS attendance rankings ...

* Week 20's eight games averaged 17,481 fans.

* Vancouver drew its biggest crowd of the season, 27,500, who saw the Whitecaps get thumped, 4-0, by the Los Angeles Galaxy. (David Beckham missed the game with his second yellow-card suspension of the season but Landon Donovan scored twice.)

* MLS's attendance average so far this season is 17,420. The 2010 season ended with a 16,037 league-wide attendance average.

* MLS's highest attendance came in its inaugural season of 1996 -- 17,406.